حَجَرًاstone

Example sentences

• وَحَجَرًا حَجَرًا أَيْسَرُ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ مُكَابَدَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ الْعَاقِلِ

  Removing it stone by stone is easier for Satan than contending with the rational believer.

  وَحَجَرًا — and stone. The wa- continues the saying, and the noun it prefixes is indefinite and accusative, the first of a doubled 'stone by stone'. The accusative marks it as an adverbial measure of how an action unfolds, piece by piece. It pairs with the identical next word.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →

• وَحَجَرًا حَجَرًا أَيْسَرُ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ مُكَابَدَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ الْعَاقِلِ

  Removing it stone by stone is easier for Satan than contending with the rational believer.

  حَجَرًا — stone. This is the second half of the doubled 'stone by stone', completing the distributive sense. Its accusative matches its twin as an adverbial measure. The repetition is what conveys the one-at-a-time action.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →